Author: Lori Jia
Frank writes, “Hey there! I didn’t tattoo science, science tattooed me! I’m coming up on being five years free of testicular cancer thanks in part to this tiny tattoo that helped the technicians correctly align my Guidant radiation treatments.”
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Originally published December 12, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
Barack Obama has picked Steven Chu, director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at Berkeley as his Secretary of Energy. This will be interesting–what happens when you put a Nobel-prize winning scientist in charge of a government department? Here’s one prediction: expect a lot of synthetic biology. Practically nobody has heard of synthetic biology today, but that will probably change.
Originally published December 11, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
John, a graduate student in neurobiology at Cornell, writes, “Anyway, here’s my “science tattoo” and a bit of back story. It’s not directly science, but more like philosophy of science. It’s a piece by Francisco Goya, El Sueno de la Razon Produce Monstros. It means “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters”, and it is part of his series of lithographs in the book Los Caprichos, which was highly critical of the Spanish Aristocracy of the time (1799). I first saw this image when I was in AP Art History in high school, about 9 years ago. Within seconds of seeing it, I thought to myself that this would be my first tattoo– and finally, it is!
Weldon writes, “I doubt I’m the only one with this, but Maxwell’s Equations in differential form on my arm are attached. Unfortunately it’s hard to get any shot of all four at once (given the curvature) and it’s hard to get my arm in the right position for any camera to get Ampere’s circuital law.”
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Originally published December 10, 2008. Copyright 2008 Carl Zimmer.
A while back I mentioned I’d written a piece on the evolution of weird eyes for the new journal Evolution: Education and Outreach. Now the issue in which it appears–a special one dedicated to the evolution of the eye–is online and free as free can be. So download away. Here’s the table of contents, with links.
Evolution: Education and Outreach